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title: "5 Laughter Audience Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight." "But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-wogan/i-m-glad-there-s-been-so-much-laughter-in-the-audience-tonight-but/)

[Terry Wogan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-wogan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cd/terry-wogan-8372_america_i-m-glad-there-s-been-so-much-laughter-i_158288.jpg)

> [Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robertson-davies/only-in-the-theatre-was-it-possible-to-see-the-performers-and-to-be/)

[Robertson Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robertson-davies/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebf/robertson-davies-834_actors_only-in-the-theatre-was-it-possible-to-s_1391458.jpg)

> [We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/we-are-a-nation-that-has-always-gone-in-for-the-loud-laugh-the-wow/)

[James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/james-thurber-1534_actors_we-are-a-nation-that-has-always-gone-in_1511382.png)

> [If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-norden/if-the-laughter-of-the-audience-was-malicious-we-wouldn-t-show-it/)

[Denis Norden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-norden/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/474/denis-norden-20199_audience_if-the-laughter-of-the-audience-was-mali_1755005.png)

> [The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/the-appreciative-smile-the-chuckle-the-soundless-mirth-so-important/)

[James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e2/james-thurber-1534_appreciative_the-appreciative-smile-the-chuckle-the-s_1986864.jpg)

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